We are pleased to invite you to our online panel Implementing Responsible Research Assessment in India! 🇮🇳.🗓️  Thursday, June 6, 2025.🕒  3:00–4:00 PM IST | 10:30–11:30 AM GMT.📍  Online .Register now 👉

As we gear up to launch our #ResponsibleResearchAssessment Guide for research performing institutions in just 3 weeks, we want to thank the DORA community and all those who contributed to it! Join us for the launch May 15-16

RT @researchimpact: ✨ @Concordia recently joined @DORAssessment! . Join their hybrid seminar on Feb 20, 2025 at 10:15 am - 12 pm ET to lea….

Come celebrate DORA’s 12th birthday with the launch of “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”! With guest speakers, we will introduce the guide and discuss how it can help you take action.

Show your support for DORA with one of our spiffing badges 📛: Now includes a 🆕 badge for those of you who have contributed to our Resource Library!.

Interested in how research assessment can support better diversity, equity, and inclusion?. We have a specific tag for "Equity and inclusion" in #Reformscape, our tool compiling responsible research assessment policies and practices:

We have made our biggest update to #Reformscape yet!. We recently added fifteen 1️⃣5️⃣ new institutions and thirty-five 3️⃣5️⃣ new examples of responsible research assessment practices and polices. (And we fixed a bug 🐜.).

DORA’s guidance on responsible use of quantitative indicators prompts users to follow 5 principles, like:.💡Be specific: How well does the indicator refer to the qualities of the person or the piece of work being assessed? Be mindful of aggregate metrics.

You can hover your mouse cursor over a country to see the raw number of signers and the number per million people. Enjoy this new look into interest in research assessment reforms! 4/4 🏁

We wanted a map that would give the viewer a better idea 🤔 of where there was more DORA activity. We scaled it to population so that larger, more populous countries wouldn't dominate the map. Not as brightly colored but much more informative. 3/4

DORA had a map for a long time showing that supporters came from around the world. 🌍. But we reached a point where almost every country had at least one person sign. It almost looked like DORA conquered the world. But we knew there was more work to do. 2/4

We made a little improvement to our map 🗺 of DORA signatories on Here's why. 🧵 1/4

Duncan E. Wright argues that problems of getting peer reviewers, research fraud, paper mills, predatory journals, and trivial papers are all symptoms of research culture emphasizing quantity over quality.

"Open science arose in response to scientists churning out junk, but junk seems to be what the 'market' that interests scientists still demands." . – Opinion from Nicholas JL Brown on academic "gaming" (quote lightly edited).

DORA’s guidance on responsible use of quantitative indicators prompts users to follow 5 principles, like:.💡Be fair: How will you avoid biases inherent in quantitative indicators? Be proactive & transparent.in efforts to address this challenge.

Individual anecdotes, like getting a well-known grant, can skew what we prioritize when assessing research. Institutions can use structured interview protocols to keep decision-makers focused on agreed-upon qualities, rather than on reputation.

DORA is hiring a new Program Manager:

#Reformscape is a database of the ways academic institutions implement assessment reform, from planning, implementing & iterating new policies. This gives a clearer picture of how reform happens across different countries & institutions.

ICYMI: Read the preprint from @emckiernan13 @CaitlinC1226 @doughertyorama @gtananbaum: "A framework for values-based assessment in promotion, tenure, and other academic evaluations" 👇

DORA’s guidance on responsible use of quantitative indicators prompts users to follow 5 principles, like:.💡Be contextual: How will you take account of the proxy and reductive nature inherent in any indicator?.